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1936
Paul Young, '36ed, Muskogee, was one of two
Oklahomans nominated for the 1957 Silver Anniversary
All-America roster sponsored by Sports
Illustrated magazine . (The other : Hiram Alexander,
Tulsa, nominated by the University of Tulsa .)
Young, after more than 20 years of coaching high
school football, has been called the state's outstanding
high school coach . Called "Immortal"
Young when he played football for O. U. in 1932,
he was the first of the Sooner honorary grid captwins
. Since taking up coaching duties at Muskogee
High in 1947, he has produced at least four
players who came on to the University and to
All-America fame .
W. W. Whiteman, Jr ., '366a, '37Law, '40bus,
'47m .bus, president and founder of the Bank of
Mid-America Savings and Trust Company, recently
purchased a building in Oklahoma City
and moved into the new quarters January 6 .
DEATH : George Allen Kramer, '366a, '39ms,
a naval officer during World War II and for the
past 12 years an employe of the U. S . Veterans
Achninistration, flied December 12 in a Washington,
D. C., hospital following a brief illness .
Kramer was head of the V. A.'s foreign affairs
division . Last September he was honored by his
department for sustained superior performance in
his duties . He was 41 .
Nahum Ellsworth Butcher (above, right) was guest of Donor at an appreciation dinner held in November
at Tinker Air Force Base by his fellow workers . Butcher enrolled at 0. U . in 1893, was one
of 142 students but the only freshman . He later served as 0. U.'s librarian, superintendent of
Norman public schools and president of the Oklahoma Education Association. In 1942 he retired
as representative of American Book Company, then went to work-at age 70-at Tinker, due to
World War 11 . After 15 years he's retiring again . In the above photograph, Butcher is shown being
congratulated by Milt Phillips, Seminole publisher and president of the University of Oklahoma
Alumni Association . Below, Butcher and wife pose with the citation given by the Association .
1937
Harry S . Collinson, Jr ., '376a, is now with the
Puritan Chemical Company in Greenville, South
Carolina .
Dr . Arthur N. Bragg, '37ph.d, is curator of
amphibians at the University's Stovall Museum .
At present he is concerned with numerous special
studies on the habits of frogs and toads in their
relations to their distribution, particularly in Oklahoma
.
DEATH : Max K. Gilstrap, '37journ, died in
Boston December 20, 1957 . A native of Ardmore,
Gilstrap was associate editor of the Christian Science
Monitor. Before joining the Monitor staff, he
was a naturalist and lecturer with the National
Park Service .
1938
C . J . Schwartz, '38geol, is now manager of
production for Rock Island Refining Corporation.
He is stationed in Denver, Colorado .
1939
Major William B . Rayburn, Jr ., '39, graduated
from the U. S . Army command and general staff
college associate course, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
December 20 . Rayburn has been on three
months active duty training at the Army's senior
tactical school . He is now training officer of the
45th Infantry Division, Oklahoma National
Guard, Oklahoma City . The Rayburns have two
children, Jane, 7, and John, 5.
common interests of former students and graduates
of universities which are members of the
Missouri Valley -Intercollegiate Athletic Conference,
or the Big Eight.
Mrs . Jack Holbrook (the former Lois Cobb,
'356a) is a member of the advertising department
of the McAlester News-Capitol . The Holbrooks
have three children, Vicki, 16 ; Bruce, 13, and
Beverly, 7 .
MARRIAGE : Mrs . Helen McMahon Brewer
and Dr . Andrew Merriam Young III, '356s, '37
med, were married December 7 in St. Paul's
Episcopal Cathedral, Oklahoma City . The couple
will live in Alexandria, Louisiana, where Dr.
Young will be head of the department of urology
at the Veterans Hospital .
1940
Lucyl Shirk, '406a, former Oklahoma City
school teacher, has written a history entitled
Oklahoma City, Capital of Soonerland . The book
will serve as a high school text . The schools paid
for printing the first 5,000 copies . This year Miss
Shirk was director of the Oklahoma City Camp
Fire Girl council .
T. H. Trower, '406a, '42Law, secretary-trea -
surer of Bovaird Supply Company of Tulsa, was
elected a new director of the firm at its annual
stockholders meeting . Trower joined Bovaird seven
years ago from the law firm of Williams,
Boesche and McDermott of Tulsa . As secretary,
treasurer of Bovaird, he is responsible for corporate,
legal and financial matters .
DEATHS : Cecil Myers, '40Law, North Sacramento,
California, died November 25, 1957 .
Myers, 45, served two terms as Beckham County
state representative before moving to California
about 15 years ago to become an FBI official .
Glenn D. Britt, '406a, '41Law, Tulsa, former
operator of the Britt and Britt Mining and Mill'
ing Company at Commerce, Oklahoma, died De'
cember 16 in a Tulsa hospital. Britt, 39, operated
the firm 12 years before coming to Tulsa three
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